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1979

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader


Zora Neale Hurston - 1979
    This unique anthology, with fourteen superb examples of her fiction, journalism, folklore, and autobiography, rightfully establishes her as the intellectual and spiritual leader of the next generation of black writers. The original commentary by Alice Walker and Mary Helen Washington, two African-American writers in the forefront of the Hurston revival, provide illuminating insights into Hurston—the writer, and the person—as well as into American social and cultural history.

Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away


Richard Brautigan - 1979
    REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes "The Lost Chapters of TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA."THE ABORTION: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE 1966: A public library in California where none of the books have ever been published is full of romantic possibilities. But when the librarian and his girlfriend must travel to Tijuana, they have a series of strange encounters in Brautigan's 1971 novel.SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY: It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his twelfth summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Written just before his death, and published in 1982, this novel foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide.

Tales of the Unexpected


Roald Dahl - 1979
    A decrepit old man with a masterpiece tattooed on his back. A voracious adventuress, a gentle cuckold, and a garden sculpture that becomes an instrument of sadistic vengeance. Social climbers who climb a bit too quickly. Philanderers whose deceptions are a trifle too ornate. Impeccable servants whose bland masks slip for one vertiginous instant.In these deliciously nasty stories an internationally acclaimed practitioner of the short narrative works his own brand of black magic: tantalizing, amusing, and sometimes terrifying readers into a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Included in Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Sound Machine," "Lamb to Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady."Cover illustration by Seth JabenCover design by Heidi NorthContents:- Taste- Lamb to the Slaughter- Man from the South- My Lady Love, My Dove- Dip in the Pool- Galloping Foxley- Skin - Neck - Nunc Dimittis - The Landlady - William and Mary - The Way Up to Heaven- Parson's Pleasure- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat- Royal Jelly- Edward the Conqueror- The Sound Machine- Georgy Porgy - The Hitchhiker- Poison - The Boy Who Talked with Animals- The Umbrella Man- Genesis and Catastrophe- The Butler

Collected Stories, 1939-1976


Paul Bowles - 1979
    Gore Vidal's Introduction to this large collection remarks "His stories are among the best ever written by an American".

Sandkings


George R.R. Martin - 1979
    In the future a jaded dilettante purchases a few organisms of an alien species for entertainment, but when he fails to care for them properly they develop into a threat.

The Instrumentality of Mankind


Cordwainer Smith - 1979
    81-Q (1928)3 Mark Elf (1957)4 The Queen of the Afternoon (1978)5 When the People Fell (1959)6 Think Blue, Count Two (1963)7 The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All (1979)8 From Gustible's Planet (1962)9 Drunkboat (1963)10 Western Science Is So Wonderful (1958)11 Nancy (1959)12 The Fife of Bodidharma (1959)13 Angerhelm (1959)14 The Good Friends (1963)"First Edition: May 1979" stated on the copyright page.

Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels


Giorgio Manganelli - 1979
    Yet, what are they? Miniature psychodramas, prose poems, tall tales, sudden illuminations, malevolent sophistries, fabliaux, paranoiac excursions, existential oxymorons, or wondrous, baleful absurdities? Always provocative, insolent, sinister, and quite often funny, these 100 comic novels are populated by decidedly ordinary lovers, martyrs, killers, thieves, maniacs, emperors, bandits, sleepers, architects, hunters, prisoners, writers, hallucinations, ghosts, spheres, dragons, Doppelgngers, knights, fairies, angels, animal incarnations, and Dreamstuff. Each "novel" construes itself into a kind of Mbius strip, in which, as one critic has noted, "time turns in a circle and bites its tail" like the Ouroborous. In any event, Centuria provides 100 uncategorizable reasons to experience and celebrate an immeasurably wonderful writer. Brilliantly translated from the Italian by Henry Martin.

Dark Gods


T.E.D. Klein - 1979
    Klein's highly acclaimed first novel The Ceremonies - which Stephen King called "the most exciting novel in my field to come along since Straub's Ghost Story - established him in the top rank of horror writers. Now, with the four novellas gathered here, Klein proves himself to be a master of this classic shorter form.The collection opens with "Children of the Kingdom", a beautifully crafted chiller that gradually reveals the horrors that lurk behind the shadows of the city. In "Petey", George and Phyllis and the die-hards at their housewarming think that their new rural retreat is quite a steal - unaware that foreclosure, in a particularly monstrous form, is heading their way.In the insidiously terrifying "Black Man with a Horn", a homage to Lovecraft, a chance encounter with a missionary priest over the Atlantic lures a traveller into a web of ancient mystery and fiendish retribution. And in "Nadelman's God", the protagonist discovers, degree by shocking degree, that the demons of our imaginations are not always imaginary.

Painted Devils: Strange Stories


Robert Aickman - 1979
    And we too become victims of the unknown forces he conjures. Against a wide variety of settings, Aickman's chilling stories unravel with the psychological subtlety and uncanny vision of a true master of the genre.

The Basic Kafka


Franz Kafka - 1979
    Published together for the first time are selections from all Kafka's writings: The Metamorphosis, Josephine The Singer, plus his short stories, parables, and his personal diaries and letters.

Collected Stories and Later Writings


Paul Bowles - 1979
    From his base in Tangier he produced globally ranging novels, stories, and travel writings that set exquisite surfaces over violent undercurrents. His elegantly spare novels chart the unpredictable collisions between "civilized" exiles and a Morocco they never grasp, achieving effects of extreme horror and dislocation.This Library of America Bowles set, the first annotated edition, offers the full range of his achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last century. In addition to his novels -- The Sheltering Sky (1949), Let It Come Down (1952), The Spider's House (1955), Up Above the World (1966) -- and his collected stories -- including such classics as "A Distant Episode" and "Pages from Cold Point" -- they contain his masterpiece of travel writing, Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963). Throughout, Bowles shows himself a master of gothic terror and a diabolically funny observer of manners as well as a prescient guide to everything from the roots of Islamist politics to the world of Moghrebi music. With a hallucinatory clarity as dry and unforgiving as the desert air, Bowles sends his characters toward encounters with unknown and terrifying forces both outside them and within them.

O Cobrador


Rubem Fonseca - 1979
    Rubem Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, a city whose vast disparities- in wealth, social standing, and prestige- are untenable. In the stories of The Taker, rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order, and violence and deception are essential tools of survival.

Pig Earth


John Berger - 1979
    This book is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories


Angela Carter - 1979
    K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.

The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner


William Faulkner - 1979
    Its forty-five stories fall into three categories: those not included in Faulkner's earlier collections; previously unpublished short fiction; and stories that were later expanded into such novels as The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner is an essential addition to its author's canon--as well as a book of some of the most haunting, harrowing, and atmospheric short fiction written in the twentieth century.

Star Songs of an Old Primate


James Tiptree Jr. - 1979
    Though the natives seemed human enough, only cross breeding would be conclusive proof. But how were they to prove anything, when sex was punishable by death? THE PSYCHOLOGIST WHO WOULDN'T DO AWFUL THINGS TO RATS - Dr Tilly Lipsitz hated his name, loved his rats... and would be out of a job if he didn't come up with a real zinger of an experiment soon. He didn't have much in mind until he took a midnight trip to his lab and learned more than he would have thought possible. SHE WAITS FOR ALL MEN BORN - she had eyes that could not see, but without sight she had powers that went far beyond those of all who came upon her.Contents:Your Haploid Heart (1969)And So On, and So On (1971)Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1974)A Momentary Taste of Being (1975)Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976)The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats (1976)She Waits for All Men Born (1976)

Black Tickets: Stories


Jayne Anne Phillips - 1979
    Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, Black Tickets now stands as a classic.With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarely register in American literature, Phillips writes stories that lay bare their suffering and joy. Here are the abused and the abandoned, the violent and the passive, the impoverished and the disenfranchised who populate the small towns and rural byways of the country. A patron of the arts reserves his fondest feeling for the one man who wants it least. A stripper, the daughter of a witch, escapes from poverty into another kind of violence. A young girl during the Depression is caught between the love of her crazy father and the no less powerful love of her sorrowful mother. These are great American stories that have earned a privileged place in modern literature.Wedding picture --Home --Blind girls --Lechery --Mamasita --Black tickets --The powder of the angels, and I'm yours --Stripper --El Paso --Under the boardwalk --Sweethearts --1934 --Solo dance --The heavenly animal --Happy --Stars --The patron --Strangers in the night --Souvenir --What it takes to keep a young girl alive --Cheers --Snow --Satisfaction --Country --Slave --Accidents --Gemcrack

Fantastic Tales of Ray Bradbury


Ray Bradbury - 1979
    (15:50) -- The pedestrian (10:35) -- The dwarf (27:20) -- There will come soft rains (20:17) -- The sound of thunder (28:59) -- Fever dream (14:32)

Tales of the Unexpected


Roald Dahl - 1979
    Among the unforgettable characters lurk the homicidal wife and her deadly leg of lamb, a conniving and lecherous wine connoisseur and the one-eyed brain at the mercy of his vengeful spouse. Tales of the Unexpected is an astonishing assortment of twisted treats from the master storyteller.

Convergent Series


Larry Niven - 1979
    The Nonesuch follows Doris as she discovers that a mind-reading, flesh-eating alien is stalking her. Also includes stories from the Draco's Tavern series.Table of contentsReprinted from The Shape of Space"Bordered in Black" (Nebula Award nominee)"One Face""Like Banquo's Ghost""The Meddler""Dry Run""Convergent Series" (fantasy)"The Deadlier Weapon" (mainstream work of short fiction, not sf or fantasy)Newer stories"The Nonesuch" (sf based loosely on Little Red Riding Hood)"Singularities Make Me Nervous" (whose protagonist has an art collection of "Eddie Jones originals")"The Schumann Computer" (Draco's Tavern)"Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!" (Draco)"Grammar Lesson" (Draco)"The Subject is Closed" (Draco)"Cruel and Unusual" (Draco)"Transfer of Power" (fantasy inspired by Lord Dunsany's stories set at the "edge of the world")"Cautionary Tales""Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation""Plaything""Mistake""Night on Mispec Moor""Wrong Way Street"[source: wiki]

Stories of the Old Duck Hunters


Gordon MacQuarrie - 1979
    Here are 53 classic hunting and fishing stories, some from sporting magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, including unpublished works from the author's literary estate. Available in individual volumes or collected in a slip-cased three-volume set.

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant Part Two


Guy de Maupassant - 1979
    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Da Vinci's Bicycle


Guy Davenport - 1979
    Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time.

Descent of Man


T. Coraghessan Boyle - 1979
    Boyle offers his unique view of the world. A primate-center researcher becomes romantically involved with a chimp; a Norse poet overcomes bard-block; collectors compete to snare the ancient Aztec beer can, Quetzacoatl Lite; and Lassie abandons Timmy for a randy coyote. Dark humor, delirious fantasy, and surreal satire come together in this collection that brilliantly expresses just what the "evolution" of mankind has wrought.

Old Love


Isaac Bashevis Singer - 1979
    Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred.

War Crimes


Peter Carey - 1979
    A luxurious train thunders north carrying a clerk who must pay dearly for his indulgence. Roses betray the secret of an old man, and a young unemployed couple explore the mysteries of exotic pleasures.Bizarre, funny, and chilling the stories in this collection are all, in one way or another, about power - about those who wield it, those who want it, and those who recall only its dazzling exhilaration and degradation.

Confessions of a Knife


Richard Selzer - 1979
    This collection, first published in 1979, utilizes the physical body as a means to explore the human mind and soul. Never hesitant to admit his own frailties, Selzer draws on his experiences as a surgeon with integrity and wit, allowing readers a first-hand glimpse into the medical world.

Underground River and Other Stories


Inés Arredondo - 1979
    Her works dwell on obsessions: erotic love, evil, purity, perversion, prostitution, tragic separation, and death. Most of her characters are involved in ill-fated searches for the Absolute through both excessively passionate and sadomasochistic relationships. Inevitably, the perfect, pure dyad of two youthful lovers is interrupted or corrupted through the interference of a third party (a rival lover or a child), aging, death, or public morality. Set at the beginning of the twentieth century in the tropical northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, the stories collected in Underground River and Other Stories focus on female subjectivity. Arredondo’s adult male characters are often predators, depraved collectors of adolescent virgins, like the plantation owners in “The Nocturnal Butterflies” and “Shadows in the Shadows” and the dying uncle in “The Shunammite,” who is kept alive by incestuous lust. Since the young female protagonists rarely have fathers to protect them, the only thing standing between them and these lechers are older women. Perversely, these older women act as accomplices–along with the extended family and the Roman Catholic Church–in the sordid age-old traffic in women.Underground River and Other Stories is the first appearance of Arredondo’s stories in English.

All the Good People I've Left Behind


Joyce Carol Oates - 1979
    

Contemporary Latin American Short Stories


Pat McNees - 1979
    Collected in this brilliant volume are thirty-five of the finest writers of this century, including:Jorge Luis BorgesCarlos FuentesJulio CortazarMiguel Angel AsturiasGabriel Garcia MarquezJorge AmadoOctavio PazJuan BoschJose DonosoHoracio QuirogaMario Vargas LlosaAbelardo CastilloGuillermo Cabrera InfanteAnd many more

Sixty Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm


Jacob Grimm - 1979
    

Short Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman


Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - 1979
    Both Jewett and Freeman used as their settings the small towns of 19th-century New England, both created as their principal characters mature and elderly women. Their artistic domain encompassed the quiet but sharply etched dramas of everyday existence and individual struggles for survival and fulfillment.Sarah Orne Jewett is represented on these pages by the novel and four stories about the fictional town of Dunnet Landing that make up her classic, The Country of the Pointed Firs, plus five other tales that give added appreciation of the richness of her sympathy for and understanding of the drama of outwardly placid lives. The unique genius of Mary Wilkins Freeman can be experienced in fourteen stories that take us into the intimate world of women fighting for dignity and independence in a society that seeks to fit them into crippling molds -- and among men who are often thoughtless oppressors.Taken together, the stories of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman offer the modern reader entry into a lost American past and insight into human dilemmas still pertinent today.Edited and with an introduction by Barbara H. Solomon.

The Open Cage: An Anzia Yezierska Collection


Anzia Yezierska - 1979
    Her stories, written from the 1920s to the 1960s, immortalized the lives of the Jews of New York's Lower East Side. The Open Cage collects sixteen of her best stories and excerpts from her autobiography to illustrate her extraordinary storytelling gift as well as her personal experience as an immigrant woman. Along with her novel Bread Givers, the work gathered here constitutes her enduring achievement. Included are "The Fat of the Land," Children of Loneliness," America and I," The Lost 'Beautifulness,'" and other stories; vignettes from Red Ribbon on a White Horse: My Story; and four remarkable stories of old age. The introduction by Historian Alice Kessler-Harris and the afterword by Yezierska's daughter and biographer, Louise Levitas Henriksen, place the writings in a rich and valuable context.

The Golden Helix


Theodore Sturgeon - 1979
    Each story is prefaced with a brief discussion by the author. "A master storyteller certain to fascinate all sorts of readers . . ".--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Science Fiction of the Fifties


Martin H. Greenberg - 1979
    MacDonaldFeedback by Katherine MacLeanDP by Jack VanceThe Liberation of Earth by William TennA Work of Art by James BlishThe County of the Kind by Damon KnightThe Education of Tigress McCardle by C.M. KornbluthThe Cage by A. Bertram ChandlerThe Last of the Deliverers by Poul AndersonA Bad Day for Sales by Fritz LeiberSaucer of Loneliness by Theodore SturgeonHeirs Apparent by Robert AbernathyAdrift on the Policy Level by Chan DavisShort in the Chest by Margaret St Clair5,271,009 by Alfred BesterThe Academy by Robert SheckleyNobody Bothers Gus by Algis BudrysHappy Birthday Dear Jesus by Frederik PohlBettyann by Kris NevilleDark Interlude by Fredric Brown & Mack ReynoldsWhat Have I Done by Mark CliftonLove O Careless Love by Barry N. Malzberg

Ringing Changes


R.A. Lafferty - 1979
    Where stone-eating cartoon "dorgs" reproduce and multiply. Where special days - not in the regular 365 count - invade consciousness. And where the ultimate goal is the great synthesis, the happy obliteration of all individuality and memory.The best stories by a Hugo Award winner, Ringing Changes ranges from entancing aliens to malevolent mutations, from cosminc jokes to hauntigly feal fantasies. But throughout, R.A. Lafferty's sardonic imagination projects a chilling future that may be just a small step away for mankind.[Taken from the back cover]

Favorite selections from Out of the best books


Bruce Budge Clark - 1979
    

Such Stuff As Screams Are Made Of


Robert Bloch - 1979
    FellLuck Is No LadyThe CureThe Screaming PeopleThe Big KickThe MasterpieceTalentThe Final PerformanceLife In Our TimeUndergroundA Case Of The StubbornsThe HeadWhat You See Is What You GetNinaAuthor's Afterword

African Sleeping Sickness: Stories & Poems


Wanda Coleman - 1979
    It's impossible to paraphrase her colloquial, dynamic style: "where I live / the little gangsters diddy-bop through and pick up / young bitches and flirt with old ones, looking to / snatch somebody's purse or find their way into somebody's / snatch 'cause mama don't want them at home and papa / is a figment and them farms them farms them farms / they call schools, and mudflapped bushy-headed entities / swoop the avenue seeking death / it's the only thrill left / where I live" Understanding does not mean, to Coleman, mild forgiveness, it means hot rage against those of any color who prey on others in pain. Contextualizing murder, rape, poverty, addiction showing us their human faces gives Coleman a 'shattered heart, ' makes her feel 'thrown heart first into this ruin, ' but the experience transforms the reader." --Booklist

Men of the Mountains


Jesse Stuart - 1979
    Life, animate existence, absorbs Jesse Stuart. Never is it more vital than when juxtaposed with death, hence the contrasting motifs of life and death permeating his work. In this book, Stuart tells the stories of the hills and the men who live there. They "curse the mountains," but love them too, he says. Existing in dimensions of real geography and elaborate imagination, Stuart moves easily between autobiography and fiction and often does not bother to distinguish one from the other. Greenup County, Kentucky blends into Greenwood County, and W-Hollow in both fiction and fact is subject to the proprietorship of the bard of Appalachia.

The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories


F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1979
    The smilers --Myra meets his family --Two for a cent --Dice, brassknuckles & guitar --Diamond Dick and the first law of woman --The third casket --The pusher-in-the-face --One of my oldest friends --THe unspeakable egg --John Jackson's arcady --Not in the guidebook --Presumption --The adolescent marriage --Your way and mine --The love boat --The bowl --At your age --Indecision --Flight and pursuit --On your own --Between three and four --A change of class --Six of one --A freeze-out --Diagnosis --The rubber check --On schedule --More than just a house --I got shoes --The family bus --In the darkest hour --No flowers --New types --Her last case --Lo, the poor peacock! --The intimate strangers --Zone of accident --Fate in her hands --Image on the heart --Too cute for words --Inside the house --Three acts of music --"Trouble" --An author's mother --The end of hate --In the holidays --The guest in room nineteen --Discard [Director's special] --On an ocean wave --The woman from twenty-one.

Honor, Power, Riches, Fame And the Love of Women


Ward Just - 1979
    

Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Master's Choice, Book 2


Alfred Hitchcock - 1979
    Masur, Ray Russell, Bill Pronzini - take your places for a succulent meal from the finest cuisine. But beware the aftertaste, you may never be the same again.

Animals Can Be Almost Human


Alma E. Guinness - 1979
    An anthology of 82 stories including 3 book condensations, about the exloits of a variety of real animals.

The Happiest Boy in the World


Nick Joaquín - 1979
    Illustrated by Lydia NeyOut of print

Bread and Milk : and other stories


Eileen Gibbons Kump - 1979
    A collection of related stories depicting the life of a Mormon woman as she grows from childhood in a polygamous family, through courtship, marriage, and family.

Rope of Wind and Other Stories


Henry Dumas - 1979
    A wonderful short story collection by this African-American writer who died before reaching his potential.

Collected Stories of O. Henry: Revised and Expanded


O. Henry - 1979
    Henry transformed the mundane occurrences of everyday life into hundreds of stories so popular that they have never gone out of print. From The Gift Of The Magi, the heartwarming classic of selfless love, to The Last Leaf, the unforgettable story of the twist of fate that renews one woman's will to live, O.Henry's finest work is collected here in one volume. These expertly plotted tales reveal the humorous complexities of hope and destiny, and demonstrate O. Henry's indisputable storytelling genius. His bittersweet insight and trademark surprise endings make for timeless tales that continue to delight readers throughout the world.

Great American Short Stories


H. Bodden - 1979
    Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.

From the Fifteenth District


Mavis Gallant - 1979
    An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives. A great writer’s quiet widow blossoms in widowhood, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a ten-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas. Full of wry humour and penetrating insights, this is Mavis Gallant at her most unforgettable.

The First Winter of My Married Life


William H. Gass - 1979
    

Home Is The High Country My Small Animal Friends


Mona Anderson - 1979
    Collection of tales written for children, about the author's encounters with small creatures, both wild and tame, who live in the Canterbury high country.

The Great Merlini: The Complete Stories of the Magician Detective


Clayton Rawson - 1979
    Contents: The Clue of the Tatooed Man The Clue of the Broken Leg The Clue of the Missing Motive From Another World Off the Face of the Earth Merlini and the Lie Detector Merlini and the Vanished Diamonds Merlini and the Sound Effects Murder Nothing is Impossible Miracles - All in the Day's Work Merlini and the Photographic Clues The World's Smallest Locked Room

Mindoro and Beyond: Stories


N.V.M. Gonzalez - 1979
    Gonzalez is easily the master of Filipino short story."Bienvenido Lumbera, Revaluation/Essays on Philippine LIterature, Cinema and Culture"American critics have also been impressed... Lucian Stryk, a renowned scholar of Asian Literature, offered his assessment in Panorama...'Mr. Gonzalez is most telling when he writes of the young, the old, the deprived, and he finds people to care about all over those 7,000 islands of his. He is a very pure writer.'"Roger J. Bresnahan, Asiaweek Literary Review"The paradox of Gonzalez is that he has gained an international reputation for himself at a variety of intellectual centers while identifying constantly with the uneducated folk-wise peasant of the Philippines..."Leonard Casper, Survey of Long Fiction"Here too is a chance to chart the development of an artist...and the expansion of his literary landscape."Doreen G. Fernandez, World Literature Today"Fortunately for the Philippines, Gonzalez' vision--even in its twilight, somber hues--is strong, complex and daringly hopeful."Richard R. Guzman, Virginia Quarterly Review"This unique modern Filipino writer is a master not only of English, but of his own individual prose style...The stories...bear the stamp of a most sensitive personality and of an original mind."James Kirkup, The Weekly Nation

Warton and the Traders


Russell E. Erickson - 1979
    Two toad brothers gain their freedom from a bickering weasel family by teaching them the value of teamwork.

Mammon and the Archer / The Gift of the Magi


O. Henry - 1979
    

Yury Olesha - Complete short stories & Three fat men


Yury Olesha - 1979
    

The Seed of Evil


Barrington J. Bayley - 1979
    Bayley; dark fables resounding with sombre undertones - love used as a weapon, God assassinated by the ingenuity of man, the secret of death revealed, the inexplicable explained! Tales which will be pondered on, and remembered.Contains the following:Sporting with the ChidThe God-GunThe Ship that Sailed the Ocean of SpaceThe Radius RidersMan in TransitWizard Wazo's RevengeThe Infinite SearchlightIntegrityPerfect LoveThe CountenanceLife TrapFarewell Dear BrotherThe Seed of Evil

The dog : and other stories


Joseph Hansen - 1979
    

The Western Writings of Stephen Crane


Stephen Crane - 1979
    

Moveable Books: An Illustrated History


Peter Haining - 1979
    Pages & pictures of folding, revolving, dissolving, mechanical, scenic, panoramic, dimensional, changing, pop-up and other novelty books from the collection of David and Briar Philips.A wonderful book superbly illustrated in colour on every page, progressing from Harlequins through Click Tablets, Fancy Paper Dolls and Panoramas to the main subject of movable books from Dean's productions of the 1850s through the Nisters and Meggendorfers and ending with Beatrix Potter's panoramas and the Speaking Picture Book.

Heroic Fantasy


Gerald W. PageE.C. Tubb - 1979
    Walsh, Jr."Commentary on Swords and Swordplay", essay by Hank Reinhardt"Astral Stray", by Adrian Cole (The Voidal)"Blood in the Mist" by E. C. Tubb (Malkar)"Commentary on Armor", essay by Hank Reinhardt"The Murderous Dove", by Tanith Lee (Cyrion)"Death in Jukun", by Charles R. Saunders (Imaro)"The De Pertriche Ring", by H. Warner Munn"Commentary on Courage and Heroism", essay by Hank Reinhardt"The Hero Who Returned", by Gerald W. Page"The Riddle of the Horn", by Darrell Schweitzer (Julian)"The Age of the Warrior", by Hank Reinhardt"The Mistaken Oracle", by A. E. Silas"Demonsong", by F. Paul Wilson (The Secret History of the World)"The Seeker in the Fortress", by Manly Wade Wellman (Kardios)

Beautiful Girl: Stories


Alice Adams - 1979
    . . . How can one person know so much?” --The New York Times Book Review   With appearances in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Redbook, as well as in the  O. Henry Award collections for eight consecutive years, Alice Adams had established herself as a master craftsman of the short story when she published her first collection.   Her well-honed skill is on abundant\\t display in this collection of 16 wonderful stories that encompass a wide range of mood and situation. All are linked in the delicacy and ease of their unfolding, and in the certitude of their revelations, and in the consistency of their theme: Love.   Included are “Winter Rain,”  “Roses, Rhododendron,”  “Home is Where,” “Jealous Husband.”